Xochitl and the Flowers

Xochitl and the Flowers
Author: Jorge Argueta
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780892391813

Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador,reate a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind theirpartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.

Xochitl and the Flowers: X‰chitl, La Nia de Las Flores

Xochitl and the Flowers: X‰chitl, La Nia de Las Flores
Author: Jorge Argueta
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9781531164584

In this English-Spanish bilingual story by the award-winning author of "A Movie in My Pillow," a girl misses her friends, family and garden after she moves from El Salvador to San Francisco.

Race and Colorism in Education

Race and Colorism in Education
Author: Carla Monroe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317597699

As one of the first scholarly books to focus on colorism in education, this volume considers how connections between race and color may influence school-based experiences. Chapter authors question how variations in skin tone, as well as related features such as hair texture and eye color, complicate perspectives on race and they demonstrate how colorism is a form of discrimination that affects educational stakeholders, especially students, families, and professionals, across P-16 institutions. This volume provides an outline of colorism’s contemporary relevance within the United States and shares considerations for international dimensions that are linked to immigration, refugee populations, and Canada. By situating colorism in an educational context, this book offers suggestions for how educators may engage and confront this form of discrimination.

A Movie in My Pillow

A Movie in My Pillow
Author: Jorge Argueta
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780892391653

Poems for children that evoke the wonder of childhood in rural El Salvador include the relationship with a caring father and the author's confusion and delight in his new urban home.

Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships for ELL and Immigrant Students

Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships for ELL and Immigrant Students
Author: Onchwari, Grace
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-12-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799847136

Recent research suggests that good relationships between parents and their children’s providers or teachers could lead to positive outcomes for children and families. Positive, mutually respectful, and collaborative relationships between families and schools and education providers and teachers contribute to young children’s school readiness, increase positive family engagement in children’s programs, and strengthen home-program connection, a critical factor to children’s school success. Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships for ELL and Immigrant Students is a comprehensive reference source that focuses on research-based pedagogical practices for teaching young English language learners (ELL) and immigrants. It specifically looks at strategies across the curriculum including social-emotional development, parent involvement, language development, and more. While highlighting major themes that include academic engagement and achievement among ELL and immigrant children, factors affecting partnerships with schools and home, the impact of home environments on school readiness, and student performance, this book shares pedagogical practices across different subjects that use partnerships with families of ELL/immigrants. It is intended for classroom teachers (early childhood and K-12), parents, faculty, school administrators, academicians, professionals, researchers, and students interested in family-teacher relationships.

The Ancient Cities of the New World

The Ancient Cities of the New World
Author: Désiré Charnay
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1887
Genre: Guatemala
ISBN:

Born in France, Charnay (1828-1915) travelled extensively through commissions from the French government and with private patronage. He made several visits to the region between 1857 and 1886, producing in his work both a journal of his adventures and an archaeological examination of past civilizations. Beginning in Mexico, Charnay notably examines the ancient city of Tula and also the history of Yucatán, discussing aspects of Toltec and Mayan culture. He explores the ruins of Chichen Itza, Kabah and Yaxchilan (which Charnay dubbed 'Lorillard Town' after a benefactor), among many other settlements. Surveying art, pyramid architecture, ancient customs and history based on extant sources, this account was a major contribution in its field and remains of interest to scholars of Latin American archaeology.

An Aztec Herbal

An Aztec Herbal
Author:
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0486140970

16th-century codex was first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World, with ancient remedies for everything from hiccoughs to gout. Index. New Introduction. Over 180 black-and-white and 38 color illustrations.